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Story: Microsoft warns of worm exploiting Windows flaw
How an effective Vulnerability Assessment process can help me with this!
Network discovery solutions shed light into the risk areas that are often not visible within the network environment. With new found visibility into the organisation’s environment, IT can discover all assets within the network and uncover undetected or unknown vulnerabilities. Sometimes, discovered assets are silent
or hidden systems within a network, providing access to potential threats. By performing comprehensive discovery, organisations receive a flexible approach to understanding and assessing what IT assets are connected to the network as well as discovering all rogue machines, including; IP address range, Active Directory, OUs, network enumeration, host name, and file port import.
Doing so not only solidifies security, it also has the potential to streamline operational TCO. Not only can these assets be a source of vulnerabilities, but they are also potentially underutilized resources. By adopting automated discovery, organisations can gain a complete view of all IT assets residing on the network.
Effectively identifying and remediating vulnerabilities before they attack a network environment is a great way to reduce IT TCO.
Within a vulnerability assessment process, the best way to guarantee vulnerabilities are identified, is by defining the system configurations within the assessment. Since over 65% of vulnerabilities are due to misconfigurations, i.e. configuration errors and lapses by IT administration, these can be immediately identified and remediated.
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